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Today at the beach high tide line I rediscovered an idea. 45 years ago I launched a toy yacht on a pond on Wimbledon common. Attached to the keel was a torpedo shaped, battery powered propellor, somewhere in the middle […]

I am interested in the way objects are used to convey a narrative in Cornelia Parker’s work.  Twenty Years of Silver consists of two silver goblets, which her friend was given as a wedding present.  The marriage has since broken […]

while i write this post the team at the silk mill are viewing a first draft of the film, i expect them to have a lot of feedback and reaction. preparing a draft has been really helpful this week to […]

Mandy smelled the same as her sister all those seasons ago curled up in the very same blanket. Sam by then was a year and a half old. The arrival of Mandy was a similar affair as the arrival of […]

During the Victorian era in Germany,an ex-seamstress and an inmate in an asylum,Agnes Ricter stitched into virtually every inch of the jacket she created from her institutional uniform.Agnes’s embroidered writing was so profuse that much of the text was hard […]

I am working on one of my latest projects which is a mixed media piece.It contains a collection of paintings (appliquéd onto a vintage army jacket.The jacket will contain a narrative using words and pictures of the life of my […]

It was interesting to review my collection of work related to the cine film frames at the time, but more so to look at it later. I used this collection as the subject for a sample catalogue we made for […]

Thinking back now to meeting Vijay Kumar in New York City last summer here on a cloudy winter’s day in Wales brings the warmth of summer sun to my spirit.  He is a person who possesses an aura of openness, […]

During my drive down to Cardiff to meet  ceramic artist Claire Curneen at her studio I was thinking back over her work since I first met her in the 1990s when she had not long left her native Ireland.  We […]

I came across the work of New York Artist Margaret Withers while I was looking at the New York NURTUREart website, and was immediately caught by its poignancy and wit.  It seems to hop in and out of story-telling and […]